The Irish standard., 1887-02-19
killen me. I'm getting very could, Jer

Try. IlSn, 1feeZen a5ll, DelleVe'
/ "Freezen!'' shouted Jerry, 'd'ye hear
what he calls the finest, soft, moist
evenen that? Eh! why Rody, Rody. [
say agin! what's the matter? Rody!
Stir up, man. He's dycn, b'lieve. O
murther, entirely. he's goeu, he's stiff
men,
He paused and gazed on the dying
wretch, who remained in his arms gasp
ing for breath, while he stared fearfully
on the broad black darkness above him,
which his memory, now for the the first
time startled from her sleep OF indiffer-
ence by the baying of the hell-uouud
Conscience, had peopled with the dark
shadows Of his many victims. He shrank
back, shivered, dropped his jaws. which
clattered like pair Of castanets, bis
lips became dragged and livid, his teeth
set, and he lay stark and cold III the
arms Of the terrified accompiice of his
crimes, and witness Of his blasphen,ies,
u horrible spectacle Of the sudden ven~
geance Of long-sutfering but wakeiul
Providence,
The black speck which the Coiner' S
vile had Indicated in the red evening
suoljght, WIS now broad mass Of va
por, datkenlDg the regiou Of the tenn
pests from one point OF The horizon to
the other, aud presenting, in the swift
gradations of It's progress from insigni-
ticance to grandeur, 81 magnificent and
terrific emblem Of the spea<liLg domi-
MON of crime in the human soul. from
/ the slight neglect ol a wandering thought
in devotion to The awful and tumultuous
blackness Of impenitent despair Itself.
| The first thin sheeted flashes of reddlsu
Tightening had begun to culver and play
on the gloomy expanse, revealing at
ftfn} intervals the jugs aud uneven
nesses OF the otherwise undistlnguisll-
able fragments Of yapor i'll q thousand
fantastlcal images. Cur travellers, who
had advanced little more than q mile
from the inn before these changes began
to make themselves visible. looked upon
chem with no little anxiety, originating
however in very different condition Of
feeling and situation. The old Palutine
whose determination to proceed ap-
penred to increase iii proportion to the
obstacles which amassed Oh Ills route,
and the arguments which We're en-
ployed to dissuade him, observed a
profound sileuce: and except by Ill im~
patient glance or gesture which lie used
on every trifling pause t1ade by Ills com
paniols, seemed almost unconscious OF
their presence. Mr.. Shine whose spir-
it's had not yet recovered the shock
which the discovery OF Maney's cheat
had occasioned him, remained piniuned
on his pony, riding between both the
strobineen redbreasts,' as the gentle
man OF tle wig and bundles termed his
myrlniduns---the little canvass bag, Oh
John Doe, hanging down over his back
ia the fashion Of a hood, and fully pre-
pared. Ill case Of aud attempt to recover
his Liberty, OF which the Cork grazler
singularly y appreEensive, 60 be
restored to its ancient use by a slight |
check Of the string which was suspended
from his neck. The iine gentleman was
She only talkative person of the party.
He rode or--hung back-trotted from
sitie to side--lnade All uuIleeded observa-
tlon il the ear OF the pensive Segur on
the state of the weather. -inillnated to
Shine i'll a menacirg way the utter fruit
lessness any corporeal resistance from
his captors, whispered bis men to be on
their guard, FOR that big fatman was the
strongest "warrant" at 81 hurley, and
the best leaper in all Lreland-then. hav-
lug exhausted every subject that might
be suggested by the circumstances Of
each of his companions, without eliciting
any considerable portion of information,
be fell back as q last resource upon him
self arranged his wig-adjusted his
sword belt, Looked up at the heaveus--
loosened the string OF tightly packed
loody or great-coat-and trembled for
his head-gear-gave history i'll detail
of the lives, characters, fortunes, and
fashions of all the master sailors in Cork
struck Off by a byroad to the price of
pigs and cattle-convinced the passive
Shine by the most unexceptionable
syllogisms that twenty geese would con-
sumo, to blade, as much grass as any
cow-that bony pigs were always the
best to buy On fattening speculation
that bog dust was as fine manure as any
for q red soil-that it was the greatest
mistake to say the Limerick girls were
the handsomest in Ireland-that the
lightning was perfectly innocaous, as
long as it maintained it's reddish hue
chat Catholicism. particularly as regard
ed Lent and Advent, was everything
but a reasonable creed the only point